Kblog Metadata

This plugin displays who, what and when information about a blog and its
posts; it provides widgets which readers can see, as well as a computational
representation that allows computers to extract the same information. This
provides greater clarity on who posts are written by, and how they should be
cited. Readers can download the citation as a BibTeX file. Another widget
provides deep links through to Web Archives, allowing readers to check old
versions of posts.

It is part of the Knowledgeblog project (http://knowledgeblog.org), which is
developing plugins to improve WordPress as a tool for academic publishing,
either for individual authors, or for conferences and workshops publishing
proceedings to the web. As well as this file, additional documentation is
available at
process.

It is often useful to embed bibliographic metadata, describing the author(s),
title and publication date into a web page. There are a variety of different
ways of doing this, described in a variety of different specifications and/or
standards. These vary widely in their formality, uptake and age, as well as
clarity with which the specification is written.

The practical upshot of this is that automatic capture of metadata which
enables tools such as Greycite (http://greycite.knowledgeblog.org) and various
bibliographic software to work is a somewhat ad hoc affair. Sometimes it
works, sometimes it does not. Rather than requiring users to add a separate
plugin for each of these specifications, kblog-metadata takes the approach of
adding metadata in as many formats as possible, in the hope that, for any
tool, at least one will work.

Kblog Metadata enhances the ability of WordPress to expose and edit
bibliographic metadata of academic posts. It consists of a number of
pieces of functionality